What is Nagaland language?

In 1967, the Nagaland Assembly proclaimed Indian English as the official language of Nagaland and it is the medium for education in Nagaland. Other than English, Nagamese, a creole language based on Assamese, is widely spoken.

What language is spoken in Maharashtra?

Marathi
Marathi is the official language of Maharashtra and co-official language in the union territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli.

Which language is spoken in Konkani?

Konkani (Kōṅkaṇī) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Konkani people, primarily along the western coastal region (Konkan) of India. It is one of the 22 Scheduled languages mentioned in the 8th schedule of the Indian Constitution and the official language of the Indian state of Goa.

What are the 14 language in Nagaland?

The major languages spoken as per the 2011 census are Konyak, Ao, Lotha, Angami, Chakru, Sangtam, Bengali, Zeme, Yimchungre, Chang, Khiamniungan, Rengma, Phom, Nepali, Kheza, Pochury, Kuki, Chakhesang, Assamese, Bodo, Sema, etc. The Ao language is one of the Nagaland languages which have written scripts.

What is the mother language in Nagaland?

Nagamese is classified as a creole as, despite it being spoken as an “extended pidgin” by the majority of speakers across Nagaland, it is also spoken as the native mother tongue of the Dimasa community in Nagaland’s largest city, Dimapur.

Is Marathi a Dravidian language?

Dravidian place names along the Arabian Sea coasts and Dravidian grammatical influence such as clusivity in the Indo-Aryan languages, namely, Marathi, Gujarati, Marwari, and Sindhi, suggest that Dravidian languages were once spoken more widely across the Indian subcontinent.

Is Konkani different from Marathi?

Konkani is spoken all along the Malabar and Konkan coasts and it is a language closely related to Marathi. Many linguists opine that Konkani branched off from Maharashtri Prakrit and Apabhramsa earlier than Marathi and came to acquire a distinct and separate identity as opposed to being a mere “dialect” of Marathi.

Is Tulu and Konkani same?

(Konkani is spoken in several parts of Karnataka, Maharashtra, Gujarat and most of Goa). Incidentally, Tulu itself has two dialects one spoken by the Shivalli Brahmins and the other spoken by all other Tulu-speaking communities and other local communities. It has its own script, but it has not been used for centuries.

How many dialects are there in Gujarat?

eleven dialects
In itself, Gujarati has eleven dialects, which are spoken in various regions of the state. Other languages that are spoken in Gujarat are Hindi, Marathi, Marwari, Sindi, and Urdu. In the Kutch region, people have a different mother tongue known as Kachchi.

Is Hindi like Gujarati?

They’re quite comprehensible. Most native speakers of Hindi can understand Gujarati well, whereas almost all of native Gujarati speakers can converse well in Hindi. There are a few notable differences in script and some rooted words, but that doesn’t comprise much of the vernacular today.